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Title The cabaret of plants : forty thousand years of plant life and the human imagination / Richard Mabey.
Author Mabey, Richard, 1941- author.
Publication Info. New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2016.
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 Fairview Shores  580 MAB    Check Shelves
 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  580 MAB    Check Shelves
Edition First American edition.
Description 374 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
text rdacontent.
unmediated rdamedia.
volume rdacarrier.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-357) and index.
Summary A sweeping botanical history discusses how plants have been central to human experinece, exploring dozens of plant species that have upturned ideas about history, science, beauty, and belief.
Subject Botany -- History.
Related To Reproduction of (manifestation):
Mabey, Richerd, 1941- Cabaret of plants London : Profile Books, 2015 9781861976628.
ISBN 0393239977 (hardcover) : $29.95
9780393239973 (hardcover)